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100 1 $aWangerin, Walter,$eauthor.
240 10 $aPoems.$kSelections
245 14 $aThe absolute, relatively inaccessible /$cWalter Wangerin, Jr.; foreword by Scott Cairns.
264 1 $aEugene, Oregon :$bCASCADE Books,$c[2017]
264 4 $c©2017
300 $aix, 84 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aForeword / Scott Cairns -- Adams' photograph of Stieglitz -- Part I: Snow -- Cones of snow -- Milk and snow in three declensions -- A torque of time -- Gertrude's letter, midwinter -- Miz Lillian's memorial stones -- Et in Pacem -- Part 2: Cancer -- On an age-old anvil, wince and sing -- Pain -- November -- The wanderer -- The better metaphor -- Advice -- Endnote -- Zero at the bone -- Slow time -- Time's gyre -- Necrophagia: The mastery of the thing -- The effects of radiation -- To those I haven't time to write -- [untitled] -- [untitled] -- Part 3: O Babylon! -- From the Mesopotamian : Poems of Heaven and Hell -- From The Hymn of the names of Marduk -- From A Prayer to the Gods of Night -- From Childbirth -- From Inann's Journey into Hell -- From Dumuzi Mourned -- From The son's reply -- [untitled]
520 $aThe Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible is a volume of poems divided into three parts. The three parts are bound together by a brace of persistent and developing themes, as well as by the repitition (and the development) of language, metaphor, and imagery. Part 1 presents various characters (mostly African American) confronting death. The poems in part 2 are spoken by an unnamed narrator about his cancer. My cancer, actually, and my experiences. Parts 2 and 3 both descend into silence. Part 3 is a radical reworking of the ancient Mesopotamian epic loosely known as The Songs of Heaven and Hell. The poems are not a translation, though each derives from a separate song, and each uses the characters, the events, the worldview, and the stark imagery of Babylon in the third century BCE. In many respects, these poems have the prosody of the biblical psalms. -- from back cover.
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700 1 $aCairns, Scott,$ewriter of foreword.
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